Dr. K Ottaway, host of the Mundane Monday challenge, asks us to post this week about skies. But not blue skies, “skies that worry me” (although if you would like to see a really blue sky, check out this post over the White Cliffs of Dover). She posted a fire sky, which inspired me to post one too.
This picture was taken last year, 2017, from Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. As with Dr. KO’s picture, the smoke from the fires makes the sunset eerily beautiful.
The sky has often been a source of worry. In the past, people looked to the heavens for signs. Eclipses, especially, were thought to portend major events.
We’ve had a few of these in the past year. I hope that instead of the primal response that such events have historically evoked, we humans can use them as signals to come together instead.
How to Help Victims of The California Wildfires, Refinery 29, by Alejandra Salazar, August 11, 2018
Gorgeous picture…
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A really similar photo is in the San Diego Union-Tribune today. I posted mine next to it on Facebook. They are very close, except the published one looks cropped and filtered.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/weather/sd-me-warm-sleep-20180821-story.html#nws=true
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Ah, definitely not a good month to be living in California. 😩
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It’s actually okay around here in Silicon Valley. We are lucky, as we were last year.
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Great post and thank you for the link to help California wildfire affected people.
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